Workers lay the red carpet prior to China's President disembarking from his aeroplane at Tarbes airport, as part of his two-day state visit, at Tarbes, southwestern France on May 7, 2024. The French president is hosting China’s leader at a remote mountain pass in the Pyrenees for private meetings, after a high-stakes state visit in Paris dominated by trade disputes and Russia’s war in Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron made a point of inviting Chinese President Xi Jinping to the Tourmalet Pass near the Spanish border, where Macron spent time as a child visiting his grandmother. (Photo by Aurelien Morissard / POOL / AFP)
